'Serial stowaway' got past TSA, spent night at O'Hare before flight to London: Prosecutors

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Source: Chicago Tribune

'Serial stowaway' got past TSA, spent night at O'Hare before flight to London: Prosecutors

By William Lee and Liam Ford
Chicago Tribune

JANUARY 20, 2018 5:05 PM

A woman notorious for stowing away on commercial airplanes made it past two TSA agents at O’Hare Airport by hiding her face with her hair, then stayed overnight at the airport before sneaking onto a plane and flying to London this week, prosecutors said Saturday.

Marilyn Hartman, 66, faces a felony theft charge in connection with flying to the United Kingdom on a British Airways jet without a $2,400 plane ticket and a misdemeanor trespass charge in connection with getting into the airport illegally. In a hearing Saturday afternoon, a judge ordered her released on her own recognizance, but ordered her to undergo psychiatric treatment and stay away from O’Hare and any British Airways planes.

Hartman also will be required to have an ankle monitor until the conclusion of her case.

“There is no pun intended for your client, but she is a flight risk given the number of offenses,” Judge Stephanie K. Miller said to Hartman’s court-appointed attorney.

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